Northbrook, Illinois

Northbrook population, 2020 to 2024

Northbrook lost 606 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +255. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 206th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Northbrook is 2.3 times that size.

Northbrook covers 13.25 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,607 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Northbrook is denser than the typical town.

What county Northbrook is in

All of Northbrook's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Northbrook holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Northbrook

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Northbrook by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60062. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Northbrook is

The Census internal point of Northbrook is at 42.128700, -87.835200. Springfield, the capital, is 187.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Glenview, IL (47,634 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 21.6 miles away.

Daylight in Northbrook

At 42.13° N, Northbrook gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Northbrook

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Deerfield, 2.7 miles away, with 19,138 people.